A plaque engraved stone, lost in the informal network of underground quarries of Paris.

Ossa arida
Audite verbum Domini
Intromitam in vos spiritum et vivetis
Et dabo super vos nervos
Et succrescere faciam super vos carnes,
Et superextendam in vos cutem
Et dabo vobis spiritum
Et vivetis ossa arida

Listen, dry bones.
Listen to the voice of the Lord.
The mighty god of our ancestors,
Who created a breath beings,
Join your separate nodes.
You will pick the new flesh.
The skin will form on them.
Bone dry, you will live.

A mythical network. This network is considered as the greatest Lyons network (excluding sewers). Most of the existing maps were untrue or incomplete, probably intentionally to maintain the legend of mystery. Realistically, the size of the network is small, it develops within 2km. By cons, it is full of small surprises and intertwined levels that make it a very funny underground.

According to various persistent rumors, the galeries network could be open to the public in the near future, and maybe offering the preservation it deserves.

Meanwhile, various underground openings are bringing the presence of taggers. The most paradoxical is that these openings are often carried out by lovers of heritage assets and they open to vandals every time.

A small ossuary under the cemetery of Kremlin Bicetre. The bones are piled into a former quarry. They are not numerous, suggesting that they come from concessions not renewed. It remains a part of the quarry particularly pretty, with
beautiful arm pillars.

The master dome of the fashion store (Printemps Haussman), built in 1923 by the glassworker master Briere is from the very beginning. The main store was established in 1865. After the good market (bon marché) but before the Samaritaine. This name is now a brand of twenty store in France. The owners are a german bank and a brand of luxury italian stores, also established in 1865.

The great market (bon marché) is emblematic of all famous stores in Paris. Established in 1838, it wont last to be the first big store, a new commercial concept where the selling volume prevail over gross margin. The LVMH consortium bought the great market in 1984 and started to make agressive ads, coupled to a new commercial target: High luxury.

When the same consortium bought the Samaritaine, the intention wasn't the same...

note: Emile Zola, a famous french writer inspired from this universe to write "Au bonheur des dames".

One of the most interesting plates of the official ossuary. This part of the catacombs is hidden to the public.
It is inscribed "Catacombs low" while the corridor descends into a lower part of the quarry. The bones are placed in bulk.

Bones of the hospital of the Trinity and St. Denis streets Greneta. On January 6, 1814.

Large greenhouses of the Tête d'Or park was built in 1880 under the direction of Gustave Bonnet.